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Early peoples in Pacific Northwest were smoking smooth sumac
Some 1,400 years ago, people living in what's now Washington State were smoking smooth sumac, Rhus glabra. Scientists found residues of the native plant in an ancient pipe.
Project gathers stories of those killed in police violence
The oldest person on the list is a 107-year-old African American man, who in 2013, upset at being asked to move from the house where he was living, barricaded himself in a...
The millenial pre-colonial cultural inluence is evident in the Amazon forest
More than ten years ago, large geometric earthworks found in the southwestern parts of the Amazon, called geoglyphs, were reported in the global scientific news. A pre-colonial civilization unknown to...
Pantera leo's family tree takes shape
As the "king of beasts," majestic lions have been used as a symbol of courage, nobility and strength by rulers for over 6000 years. A lion became the symbol of...
Fancy Aussie bees flew in from Asia
Ancestors of a distinctive pollinating bee found across Australia probably originated in tropical Asian countries, islands in the south-west Pacific or greater Oceania region, ecology researchers claim.
Bizarre saber-tooth predator from South America was no saber-tooth cat
A new study has shown that not all saber-tooths were fearsome predators.
How the coronavirus pandemic could shape cities
At the turn of the 20th century, tuberculosis was America's third-most common cause of death. It struck down the young as well as the old and was so contagious that...
Using mass spectrometry to isolate guanine-rich DNA ions
A team of researchers at Université de Bordeaux has developed a way to use mass spectrometry to isolate guanine-rich DNA ions. In their paper published in the journal Science, the...
The evolution of the synapse
Among the most easily recognizable features of any nervous system is the synapse. While the question of how synapses evolved has been a longstanding mystery, it can now largely be...
COVID-19 not yet identified in North American bats, Alberta expert says
A bat expert in Alberta says biologists are still concerned that bat populations in North America could contract COVID-19.
Lynn named opening day starter for Texas Rangers over Kluber, Minor
Veteran right-hander Lance Lynn was named the Texas Rangers' opening day starter over left-hander Mike Minor and former AL Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber.
Mass spec and circular dichroism combination can analyze biomolecule chirality
Gas-phase CD spectra resemble solution-phase spectra
Bizarre saber-tooth predator from South America was no saber-tooth cat
A new study led by researchers from the University of Bristol has shown that not all saber-tooths were fearsome predators.
MicroCT reveals detailed head morphology of arthropod, Leanchoilia illecebrosa
An international collaboration between researchers at Harvard University and Yunnan University in China uses microCT to study and restudy arthropod fossils from the early Cambrian in the Chengjiang biota in...
Weissman Preservation Center celebrates 20th anniversary
Twenty years ago, you might have found Debora Mayer at her worktable in Harvard’s campus center, bent over a fragile 17th-century drawing. She would be carefully marking a photocopy of the drawing, recording...
Paul Alivisatos named 2021 Priestley Medalist
UC Berkeley researcher honored for pioneering work in nanomaterials and service to the science community
Watch: Mountain lion removed from crawl space under California home
A mountain lion spotted wandering a California city for four days was captured Thursday morning when it took shelter in a home's crawl space.
Countries with early adoption of face masks showed modest COVID-19 infection rates
Regions with an early interest in face masks had milder COVID-19 epidemics, experts say.
Jenny Slate, Kristen Bell step down from biracial voice roles
Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell announced on Instagram they will no longer voice biracial characters on "Big Mouth" and "Central Park."
Big-boned marsupial unearths evolution of wombat burrowing behavior
The discovery of a new species of ancient marsupial, named Mukupirna nambensis, is reported this week in Scientific Reports. The anatomical features of the specimen, which represents one of the...
Four new species of giant single-celled organisms discovered on Pacific seafloor
Two new genera and four new species of giant, single-celled xenophyophores (protozoans belonging to a group called the foraminifera) were discovered in the deep Pacific Ocean.
Still divided, North, South Korea mark 70th anniversary of start of war
North and South Korea commemorated the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War on Thursday, with ceremonies and speeches recalling a devastating conflict that left millions of soldiers...
Bringing burnt bones back to 'life' using 3D technology
Forensic scientists have discovered a new way of presenting fragile evidence, by reconstructing a 'jigsaw' of human bone fragments using 3D printing. In the first known study of its kind,...
Turn an old spoon into a fishing lure that’ll catch almost anything
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Tiny japanese dinosaur eggs help unscramble cretaceous ecosystem
When most of us think of dinosaurs, we envision large, lumbering beasts, but these giants shared their ecosystems with much smaller dinosaurs, the smaller skeletons of which were generally less...
Women divers of South Korea swim into America’s imagination
The female divers of a small South Korean island are winning the hearts and minds of American writers and filmmakers, even as their way of life slowly disappears amid modernity's...
WWE NXT: Keith Lee defends title against Finn Balor, Johnny Gargano
NXT North American Champion Keith Lee defended his title against Finn Balor and Johnny Gargano in the main event of WWE NXT.
San Antonio Spurs sign free agent Tyler Zeller for rest of season
The San Antonio Spurs signed free-agent big man Tyler Zeller for the remainder of the season.